JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The News4JAX I-TEAM has actually found out brand-new info relating to a dog attack that led to the death of a 61-year-old mail provider in Putnam County in August of in 2015.
Pamela Rock was trampled by 5 dogs that left a fenced-in lawn after the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said the postal employee’s mail truck had actually broken down on a dirt roadway. The I-TEAM has actually found out that federal and regional examinations didn’t discover misbehavior by Rock’s company or the dogs’ owner, respectively.
The State Attorney’s Office informed the I-TEAM that it is not submitting charges versus the dog owner, while an OSHA examination did not lead to any safety infractions. A memo from the State Attorney’s Office discusses that the dogs’ owner attempted to surrender them two times, consisting of 10 days prior to the attack.
In all, the memo discovers, there were at least 4 occurrences including the dogs in the months prior.
In February 2022, the memo says, the dog’s owner called Putnam County Animal Control and left a message stating he required to give up some dogs due to the fact that he might no longer take care of them. Animal Control staff informed detectives nobody ever returned his call or followed up with him.
Eleven days later on, the memo says, the dogs got away and assaulted a 50-year-old guy, who was required to the medical facility.
A deputy informed the dog’s owner to quarantine the dogs which Animal Control would call him. However, Putnam County Animal Control declared that they never ever got the cops report which they weren’t gotten in touch with.
On Aug. 10, a lady called cops after she said among the dogs got away and assaulted her car. The car was harmed, the State Attorney’s Office said, however nobody was harmed.
Law enforcement referred the case to Animal Control, which validated the dog owner had actually taken procedures to strengthen his fence. It was then, the memo says, he attempted to give up the dogs to Animal Control for a 2nd time, however the demand was decreased, “based on Putnam County Animal Control’s assessment of the situation.”
Ten days later on, detectives figured out, the dogs got away the fence their owner had actually covered with rocks, logs, concrete block and other products in an effort to keep them consisted of and assaulted Rock.
The 5 dogs have actually given that been euthanized.
The Sheriff’s Office had actually suggested charges of misdemeanor recklessness on the part of the dog owner, however the State Attorney’s Office examination discovered he wasn’t careless based upon the actions he had actually required to eliminate the dogs and repair the fence.
Animal Control they referred the I-TEAM to the county administration for remark. We did not hear back by publication of this short article.
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